Why I am delighted Ohuruogu stormed back to win gold

The 400m runner made some serious mistakes but nobody ever questioned her integrity

I TRY to remain objective about doping issues but I was delighted to see Christine Ohuruogu overcome the consequences of an unfair antidoping situation to produce the performance of a lifetime. Anyone with real knowledge of the way antidoping systems operate will know Ohuruogu's situation is an example of system failure. There is no doubt that she was foolish, that she should not have missed tests, that she should have kept her information about her whereabouts accurate. But before onlookers cast judgment, they should understand the detail of the system she was subject to and her circumstances.

Testing is meant to be a deterrent, a reinforcement of the rule. In the 1980s, out-of-competition testing was introduced as a response to the misuse of drugs in training, which cleared the body before a competition where testing took place. So if you couldn't fix the test or who was selected, you had